COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Denmark’s Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Jakob Ellemann-Jensen said on Monday he will immediately retire from politics following a 6-month sick leave for stress.
Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen will become acting deputy prime minister and economy minister, Ellemann-Jensen told a press briefing.
Ellemann-Jensen’s Liberal Party has trailed in opinion polls since December last year, when it entered a rare reform-oriented bipartisan government with the Social Democratic Party and the Moderates.
(Reporting by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen, editing by Terje Solsvik)
